Saudi Arabia Hajj Disaster Death Toll Has Reached at Least 2,177
The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,177 pilgrims, a new Associated Press tally showed Monday, after officials in the kingdom met to discuss the tragedy.
The toll keeps rising from the Sept. 24 disaster outside Mecca as individual countries identify bodies and work to determine the whereabouts of hundreds of pilgrims still missing. The official Saudi toll of 769 people killed and 934 injured has not changed since Sept. 26, and officials have yet to address the discrepancy.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdul Aziz, who is also the kingdom’s interior minister, oversaw a meeting late Sunday about the disaster in Mina, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. The agency’s report did not mention any official response to the rising death toll.
“The crown prince was reassured on the progress of the investigations,” the SPA report said. “He directed the committee’s members to continue their efforts to find the causes of the accident, praying to Allah Almighty to accept the martyrs and wishing the injured a speedy recovery.”
King Salman ordered the investigation into the disaster, the deadliest in the history of the annual pilgrimage. It came after a crane collapse in Mecca earlier that month killed 111 worshippers, and the twin disasters marred the first hajj to be overseen by the king since he ascended to the throne at the start of this year.
The Saudi king holds the title of “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques,” and the monarchy’s supervision of the hajjis a source of great prestige in the Muslim world. Riyadh has rejected a suggestion by Shiite power Iran, its main regional rival, to have an independent body take over planning and administering the five-day hajj pilgrimage, which is required of all able-bodied Muslims once in their lifetimes.
Associated PressAn Iranian mourner weeps during a funeral ceremony, attended by thousands of mourners in Tehran, Iran, for some of the pilgrims who were killed in a stampede during the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
Iran has repeatedly blamed the disaster on the Saudi royal family, accusing it of mismanagement and of covering up the real death toll, which Tehran says exceeds 4,700, without providing evidence.
“The lying and hypercritical bodies, which claim to (be promoting) human rights, as well as the Western governments, which sometimes make great fuss over the death of a single person, remained dead silent in this incident in favor of their allied government,” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday, according to a transcript on his website.
“If they were sincere, these self-proclaimed advocates of human rights should have demanded accountability, compensation, guarantee for non-recurrence and punishment for the perpetrators of this catastrophe.”
Iran and Saudi Arabia are deeply divided on a host of regional issues and back opposite sides in the wars in Syria and Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been at war with Iran-backed Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, since March.
Saudi Arabia has meanwhile been targeted in gun and bomb attacks by an affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group, which holds a third of Iraq and Syria in its self-declared “caliphate.” Like al-Qaida before it, the IS group views the Saudi royal family as illegitimate because of alleged corruption and its alliance with the United States.
The AP count of the dead from the Mina crush and stampede comes from state media reports and officials’ comments from 30 of the over 180 countries that sent citizens to the hajj.
Iran leads all the affected countries, saying it had 465 pilgrims killed. Many of the dead also came from Africa. Mali said it lost 254 people, while Nigeria lost 199, Cameroon lost 76, Niger lost 72, Senegal lost 61, and Ivory Coast and Benin both lost 52.
Others include Egypt with 182, Bangladesh with 137, Indonesia with 126, India with 116, Pakistan with 102, Ethiopia with 47, Chad with 43, Morocco with 36, Algeria with 33, Sudan with 30, Burkina Faso with 22, Tanzania with 20, Somalia with 10, Kenya with eight, Ghana and Turkey with seven, Myanmar and Libya with six, China with four, Afghanistan with two and Jordan and Malaysia with one.
The previous deadliest-ever incident at hajj was a 1990 stampede that killed 1,426 people.
My Note: Millions of Christian Ethiopians come together at “Meskal/Cross Square” for one of the most important annual Christian feasts. Never, ever in the history of the Ethiopian church has occurred that the faithful Christians have experienced like the weirdo Muslim stamped in Mecca. Million Christians lighten their candles to express their faith in The One True Egziabher God with brotherly/sisterly LOVE, PEACE and JOY – whereas, in Mecca we witness time and time again Muslims sacrificing their lives in order to please their god. All their dark ‘celebrations’ end up like the annual Serengeti wildebeest migration, in Tanzania, that begins in June and goes through until October featuring impressive crossings of the Mara River where wildebeest risk their lives to stampede through the water and are often attacked by crocodiles. (notice the time)
By the way, pay attention to the fact that the Islamic Eid al-Adha “Feast of the Sacrifice” is purposely placed between/around the two important Christian Holidays in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Calendar: New Year’s Day (September 11/12, and Meskel (September 27). Interesting, next year this Islamic feast will fall on September 11.
Remember, rain barely drops down in Mecca, but on September 11, 2015 the scary crane that collapsed on the grand Mosque was brought down by strong wind and heavy rain. In that surrounding geographical area it rains only in Ethiopia during that season ., on Ethiopia’s New Year’s Day, the strong wind (The Breath of God ) + heavy rain obviously came from the other side of the Red Sea, from Zion (the Holy Mountains of Ethiopia).
Those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble harvest it. The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.… I can’t wait for the next September 11!
“They will be put to shame and even humiliated, all of them; The manufacturers of idols will go away together in humiliation.” [Isaiah 45:16 ]
“By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they come to an end“ [Job 4:9]
Mecca Crane Collapses on 9-11 Anniversary
September 11 (Day 254, Redemption): The weather angels caused a sudden thunderstorm over Mecca that toppled a crane on worshipers in a mosque on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the US. A construction crane was struck by lightning and toppled onto the Grand Mosque about 5:45 PM Saudi time. Over 100 were killed and over 200 injured. The crane belonged to the Bin Laden family construction company, which is in charge of the £14 billion mosque expansion project.
Crance Collapse Chart
The Chart at the time of the crane collapse contained a Wing, a Coffin, and two Plows. A Wing is a symbol of power. The Wing corresponded to the crane. A Coffin is for burying the dead, and a Plow symbolizes intensive suffering, like being plowed under. One Plow pointed to the Last Adam in Sagittarius, for an enemy attack. The other Plow pointed to the God of the Covenants in Scorpius, for final judgment. The Judgment on the September 11 anniversary by the weather in an act of God was obviously God’s revenge (Rom 12:19), or redemption per the meaning of today, Day 254, for redemption.
The Redeemer Planet was on the Ascendant in Aquarius, for being redeemed from Sheol. This corresponds to those who didn’t die, but it also corresponds to God’s payback (Rom 12:19). Aquarius corresponds to Florida where three of the September 11 hijacker pilots received flight training.
Conclusion
The crane falling on the Mecca mosque during a thunderstorm corresponds to the Battle of the Thunderstorm (1 Sam 2:10; 7:10-11). The weather angels that caused the thunderstorm work for God – not Allah. The worshippers of Allah were cursed by God on the anniversary of September 11, 2001 by a Bin Laden family crane.
Fifteen of the 19 terrorists on September 11 were Saudi citizens. This is the link to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The Ascendant sign was Aquarius with the Redeemer Planet. This corresponds to redemption, or payback, associated with Florida, where three of the hijacker pilots trained. The Descendant was Leo, corresponding to Washington, DC. The Sun and Moon were setting, corresponding to the end of the day (or time period).
The cursing of the thunderstorm in the desert corresponds to the Judgment of the Prostitute of Babylon, who is behind the Muslim religion.
A curios note: All the youtube videos related to the crane collapse have a limited length of 0:20 seconds – even though many uploaded it for more than a minute. “Youtube” under Saudi pressure? See this screen shot.
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